A/N: So you guys are the greatest people ever, I so mean that. Thanks for all the reviews. I hope you guys like this chapter.
Chapter 3- The Cat's Out of the Bag
Jackie is sitting on the couch in the basement, staring at the TV. Hyde is sitting in his chair, not saying anything. They are both thinking about the prom, and more importantly what happened after.
"One of us should say something before this baby is born." Jackie told him, still not looking at him.
"I don't know what to say." Hyde replied to her.
"Neither do I." Jackie practically yelled at him, before Hyde could respond Jackie ran to the bathroom and threw up.
"Morning sickness?" He asked.
"Yeah, " she told him. "Still haven't figure out why it's called morning sickness when it lasts all day."
"Jackie…"
"Steven, I'm really tired, and I smell like vomit. Let's just talk later ok?" She begged him.
"Yeah, that's cool." He responded.
Damn you Steven and your indifference!
Jackie walked out of the basement, and Hyde sat unmoving in his chair. Ten minutes later the rest of the gang walks into the basement.
"Hyde where'd you run off to?" Eric asked him.
"Just came back here." He responded Zen firmly intact.
"I can't believe Jackie cheated on me." Kelso complained loudly.
She didn't cheat on you, moron.
"You two broke up two months ago, dillhole. You were the one who was always cheating." Donna yelled at him.
"That's true." Kelso nodded. "So who do you think is the father?"
"It might be that Cole guy, the offensive lineman. I thought I saw them flirting a few times." Eric said.
No one better be messing her, Hyde thought to himself.
"Cole is dating Brittany, you idiot. The only guys she's been around are Eric, Kelso, Hyde, and me." Fez said.
"It's not me!" Eric yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Jackie made it clear it's not mine." Kelso said.
"I wish I could say it was I who created another life with Jackie, but it was not." Fez said sadly.
"Well I guess that leaves Hyde as the father." Eric said laughing.
"Yeah, right, and I'm on the honor roll." Kelso said laughing.
"Why aren't you laughing Hyde?" Fez asked him.
"Because it's not funny you dillholes!" Donna yelled at the guys.
"I'm the father." Hyde said quietly.
"What I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. I thought you just said that you were the father of Jackie's baby." Eric said.
"I did say that Forman."
"Why would you say that Hyde?" Kelso asked him.
"Because it's true. I'm the father."
"What the hell?" Donna yelled.
"Hyde you knocked up the devil?" Eric asked him.
Hyde looked at him annoyed, and reached over and punched Eric's arm.
"Don't say that." Hyde said menacingly at Eric.
"Ok." Eric agreed quickly rubbing his arm.
"Hyde how could you do this to me? You're supposed to be my friend. First you take her to the prom, then you have sex with her, and you get her pregnant." Kelso asked him angrily.
"It just happened man." Hyde told him.
"It just happened? It just happened?" Kelso yelled.
Before Hyde could respond Kelso punched him, hitting Hyde in the jaw.
"What the hell was that for Kelso?" Hyde asked him.
"It just happened." He responded quietly.
Hyde growled at Kelso and tackled him. He punched him in the ribs, the kidneys, and the face. Occasionally Kelso got a punch in, but he was limited in his mobility, due to the fact that he was pinned underneath Hyde.
"She wasn't your girl man. You treated her like shit, and she dumped you. She moved on. This has nothing to do with you." He told him.
Hyde stopped punching Kelso and looked at him in the face.
"This is about Jackie and me. I did this to her. I ruined her life."
Hyde got off of Kelso and started pacing frantically.
"This is all my fault. This isn't supposed to happen." He said to no one in particular.
"If I was going to knock up some girl, it was supposed to be some slut like Pam Macey, and live in a trailer with her for the rest of our lives. It wasn't supposed to be Jackie. She has a future, and she's way too good for me."
The entire gang looked surprised at Hyde's confession.
"Look Hyde, this isn't all your fault. She was an active and willing participant too." Donna reminded him.
"And you are good enough for her man." Eric told him.
"I know, but I shouldn't have let it happen. God damn it." Hyde yelled and punched the wall.
"Look, Hyde this will be ok, but right now you need to figure out if Jackie's even going to keep the baby." Eric tried to reason with him.
Keeping it? Of course she's keeping it. She isn't getting rid of my baby.
"Yeah, I'll do that." Hyde said.
Without another word Hyde walked out of the basement headed toward the Burkhart mansion.
"I can't believe Hyde and Jackie got together, and made a baby!" Eric yelled.
"Why can't you believe it? The sexual tension between them has been boiling for a long time. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner." Fez said.
"Fez, eww. Keep Jackie and Hyde sex thoughts to yourself, ok." Eric told him.
"Fine." Fez said with a sigh.
"Guys, can someone get me some ice?" Kelso asked.
Hyde walked along the streets thinking to himself.
I can't let Jackie do anything to this baby, I can't. Oh my God, I want this baby. I want to keep the baby that I created with Jackie Burkhart, a unicorn loving, ABBA worshipping, cheerleader, that's beautiful, but insecure, and why am I thinking about her like this?
"Oh shit!" Hyde yelled to himself.
I've got a thing for Jackie. I have a thing for Jackie. Who put something in my stash?
Hyde turned his head and found himself in front of Jackie's house.
"Alright let's do this." Hyde told himself.
He climbed his way up until he was in front of her bedroom window. He knocked softly and Jackie opened the window for him.
"I have a door you know." She told him.
"I know, but this was fun." He told her with a smirk. "Look Jackie we need to talk about this."
"I know." She told him, looking at the floor.
"What do you want to do?" Hyde asked her.
"Well, I guess I have three options. I can keep it and raise it, I can give it up for adoption, or I can…" she trailed off, not finishing her final thought.
"You're not doing that." Hyde told her.
"Really? Because the last time I checked it was my body and my choice. You have ignored me for the last month, why should you get any say in what I do?" she yelled to him.
"Damn it Jackie you are not killing our baby." Hyde yelled back at her.
Jackie's anger melted at Hyde's statement.
He thinks it's our baby, and he wants me to keep it.
"Ok, I don't think I could do that anyway." She told him.
"Good."
"But what about adoption? It's not completely out of the question. There's got to be some couple out there that'd make good parents, better than two teenagers that barely stand each other."
That's not true. Hyde thought to himself.
"That's not true." He told her.
It isn't? God Steven, I've wanted to hear you say that for so long.
"Isn't it?" She questioned him.
"No Jackie, I don't know what's between us, but you know we are far past barely standing each other."
"Then what are we? Because I'd really like to know."
"I don't know."
Jackie looked at him angry.
"You don't know? Then why did you take me to the prom? Why were you so nice to me the whole night? Why did you leave with me? Why did you have sex with me? And why haven't you said more than two words to me since prom night?"
"I don't know ok. You were crying over not going to the prom, and I hated seeing you cry."
Jackie smile a little at his words. He didn't like seeing me cry.
"I know you weren't having a good time at the prom, so we left. Then I drove us to Mount Hump and you kissed me. You looked so beautiful in your dress, and you were so hot, I just lost it, ok? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. And I haven't talked to you since then because I was ashamed of myself because I knew you didn't really want that, and I took advantage of you."
He thinks he took advantage of me?
"I think this is the most we've ever said to each other." She joked.
"Whatever." He said with a little smile on his lips.
"So I think I want to keep this baby." She told him.
I really want this baby Steven. I want to be a mom, I want someone to love and someone to love me.
"Ok, we can do this."
Thank God, I want you to keep this baby Jacks. I'll be a good father, I promise.
"So now what do we do?" She asked him in a small voice.
"I'm not opposed to doing it." He told her with a smirk on his face.
"Steven! Don't you think we've done it enough?"
"You can never do it to much, it's not like we have to worry about you getting pregnant."
"True."
"So was that a yes?"
He's joking, that's a good thing right?
"Steven, can I ask you something?"
Oh shit, this is how it all started.
"Sure doll."
"What are we?"
"I don't know."
She opened her mouth but closed it, then opened her mouth to speak again.
"What do you want us to be?" She asked him looking him straight in the eye.
God her eyes are beautiful. What is it about this girl?
"I want to raise our baby together." He told her honestly.
"Really? Do you want more from us?"
"Do you?"
I want to be with you, and I want you to be with me. She thought to herself.
"Yes." She told him in a small voice.
She wants to be with me. Holy hell she wants to be with me!
"I'm not going to be good at this," he told her honestly.
"I know, but we have to try. I want to try."
So do I Jacks.
Jackie smiled at Hyde and threw her arms around her neck. Hyde wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close to him. She instinctively rested her head in the crook of his neck, inhaling his scent. Hyde held her close to him and deeply breathed in the faint trace of her shampoo.
"I'm happy Steven. I'm happy we're doing this." She whispered, unsure of whether he heard her or not.
"So am I Jacks." He whispered back to her.
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